I would be cautious in doing this. Most Motherboard manufacturers will
warn you that flashing your bios with an upgrade from there own site can
be a risk (i.e. buy an asus board, go to the asus web site two months
later and download the newer bios version). Like they say, "if it ain't
broke, don't fix it". The reason for this is basically that a fix or a
tweak in one are can cause something else to not work correctly. I have
flashed my bios because with the last computer that I built, I chose a
motherboard that had a shutdown problem with Linux; the maker of the
board corrected the issue with a bios update. If you have an older
computer (like an old pentium 100) however, you may have nothing to lose
and possibly some performance to gain. I would say if you have anything
new, like an Athlon or a P3, you don't stand to gain enough (unless you
just like tweaking stuff).
Mike
David Thiessen wrote:
>
> you can definately upgrade a bios. one that i have seen raves about
> is mrbios (www.mrbios.com). their bios' are supposed to be awesome,
> i want to upgrade my AMIBIOS xxxxCPOR bios, but, I havent saved the
> money yet...
>
> >From: "Kathleen Russell, fone.net tech support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] OT--BIOS
> >Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:19:26 -0600
> >
> >
> >John wrote:
> > > The BIOS is on the mother board itself and is coded on to the BIOS chip.
> > > Without it Intel systems don't run since it loads the initial boot up
> > > program from the MBR. Win/DOS also has a software "BIOS" as well, one
> >of
> >a
> > > pair of hidden system files that DOS (and OS/2, Win9* and NT 3*)
> >requires.
> > > The NT versions used to be the MS OS/2 versions. I don't know whether
> >that
> > > has changed or not.
> >
> >Disclaimer: i was pretty much joking about the BIOS thing. I actually
> >really like my BIOS (ambios). A friend of mine has a really cruddy BIOS,
> >but the computer is a machine is a Hewlett Packard, so it is a cruddy
> >system
> >in general.
> >
> >I suppose a person would have to buy a whole new motherboard to get a
> >different kind of BIOS. Can a person upgrade using the same motherboard,
> >but maybe a different version or something?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Kathleen
> >
> >
>
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